Rosetta Project Record-a-thon
Topics: Icelandic, native speaker, reading, isl
Marta reads selections from the poetry of Imants Ziedonis.
Topics: latvian, latvia, poems, folk poems, songs, literature, imants ziedonis
Kids Story about missing frog
Topics: serbian, book, kids, story
Evie and Rosie introduce themselves and the Record-a-thon to the other participants.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, introduction, record-a-thon, evie groch, rosie kaplan
Lost frog story told in Dutch
Topics: dutch, kids, story
test please ignore
Topics: english, test please ignore
Bashe talks about her family history and recites several Yiddish proverbs.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, galicia, poland, world war two, shoah, proverbs, shprikhverter, bashe kuperstein
Gustavo sings a Honduran folk song. It is a love song about a girl with dark skin.
Topics: Spanish, Honduran Spanish, Honduras, folk song, love song, spa
Gustavo tells a story about an avocado tree.
Topics: Spanish, Honduran Spanish, story, spa
Arturs talks about Latvian history.
Topics: latvian, latvia, history
Evelyn converses with Evie Groch about her childhood and family history.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, evelyn rasky, evie groch, childhood, family history
Ahuva tells some of her life story in Yiddish.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, story, life story, ahuvu jolish, biographical
Historical development of Chilapalapa (Fanagalo) with examples.
Topics: Chilapalapa, Fanagalo, history
Icek tells a story based on a Yiddish joke.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, story, joke, icek mozes, humor, varshe, balegole
A candid conversation in Latvian from Brigita, Ruta, and Gundega.
Topics: latvian, latvia, conversation, chat
Talking about food of the Netherlands
Topics: dutch, food, stories
anita suter from st.gallen, switzerland, talking about her experience in the US and her relation to languages, speaking swiss german, "ostschweizer" dialect
Topics: swiss german, switzerland, german, st.gallen, ostschweiz
About today.
Topics: English, linguistics
Discussion of Russian grammar and other assorted topics, in Russian. Some co-opted English words.
Topics: Russian, rus, non-native speaker, language learner
In this video, I read part of the first chapter from Leonard Wolf's Yiddish translation of Winnie-the-Pooh (by A.A. Milne). This video is one of four videos comprising the entire first chapter and dedication.
Topic: yiddish
Slang in a pidgin English that's spoken throughout Southern Africa. Derived from English, Afrikaans.
Topic: slang english
Carmen reads the wordless book "Bird's new hat"
Topics: spanish, bird's new hat, wordless book
Talking about the Record-a-thon in English.
Topic: english
Life in Serbia vs US
Topics: serbian, lifestyle
Edgar and son Armand sing a Latvian song.
Topics: latvian, latvia, song
Members of the Northern California Latvian Association sing a song in Latvian.
Topics: latvian, latvia, song
Rosie Kaplan and Evie Groch talking in Yiddish about how they made chicken soup.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, recipes, chicken soup, food words, story, evie groch, rosie kaplan
Oscar reads a poem that his father used to read to him as a child (from Yosl Kotler's "Muntergang"), and sings a song that his mother used to sing.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, oscar berland, poem, poetry, yosl kotler, yosel cutler, muntergang, song, music,...
Record-a-thon participants sing Yiddish folks, with Gerry Tenney on guitar. This is part 1 of a two-part recording. Part 2 is available at http://archive.org/details/jewishdiasporarecordathon_gantse.grupe_005
Topics: yiddish, yidish, songs, music, folk songs, chorus
Gerry discusses Yiddish music and sings a few songs, including a Yiddish rendition of A Hard Day's Night.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, songs, music, beatles, a hard day's night
My story; living in San Francisco.
Topic: swahili
A lullaby in Finnish.
Topic: finnish
Giving a definition of the word "sisu": there is no translation for it in other languages. Sisu is a big part of Finnish culture and identity.
Topic: finnish
Talking in English about chatspeak and emoticons.
Topics: english, chatspeak, emoticons, acronyms, eng
Talking about how I envision words as physical objects.
Topic: finnish
a conversation in swedish by two siblings. discussing their day, and their dislike of the sound of swedish.
Topic: swedish
Talking about the sauna in Finnish.
Topic: finnish
(I look terrible, nevertheless...) I speak in Esperanto, The International Language, for less than 3 minutes, showing the covers and a sample page from 6 books for children in Esperanto.
Topics: Esperanto, International Language, children's books, tired
In this video, I read part of the first chapter from Leonard Wolf's Yiddish translation of Winnie-the-Pooh (by A.A. Milne). This video is one of four videos comprising the entire first chapter and dedication.
Topic: yiddish
A new language.
Topic: english
I'm narrating two worldless books.
Topics: German, High German, wordless book, story, narration, deu
German Swadesh list.
Topic: german
Hawaiian proverbs, colors, disc drives
Topics: Hawaiian, colors, proverbs, phrases
My story; living in San Francisco.
Topic: swahili
My story; living in San Francisco.
Topic: swahili
Some brief, non-fluent Sinhala.
Topics: sinhala, sin, non-native speaker, language learner, reading
Testing upload for the Language is Life workshop to be held at the Marin Headlands Institute September 16-18. This recording of the Shona language was made by Chihota at the Record-a-thon held at the Internet Archive July 30, 02011.
Topic: shona
Talking about the recording process.
Topic: english
Finnish folk song.
Topic: finnish
Stefania and Barbara, both from Milan, are talking about their home country Italy.
Topics: Italian, ita
Lili Ackle from Frick, Switzerland is talking about Switzerland and her experience as an intern in San Francisco. The recording is in the "Aargau" dialect of Swiss German.
Topics: swiss german, switzerland, german, aargau, gsw
A boy, a dog, and a frog reading
Topics: Japanese, wordless book reading
Shona, a native Zimbabwean language.
Topic: shona
Where and why I am participating in the recordathon
Topics: mixteco bajo, recordathon 2011
Members of the Northern California Latvian Association explain briefly, in English, the meaning and significance of their dainas (Latvian folk poems). See the following URL for the original recording of the dainas in Latvian: archive.org/details/latvianrecordathon_northern.california.latvian.association_001
Topics: latvian, latvia, dainas, folk poems, folklore, explanation, translation
Taira, Anda, and Laimonis give a brief recap, in English, of their conversation about Latvian theater, clothing, and the Ventspils dialect. See original recording, in Latvian, at the following URL: archive.org/details/latvianrecordathon_taira_anda_laimonis_001
Topics: latvian, latvia, theater, art, performance, clothing, costume, dress, ventspils, dialects
Linda recites some Latvian nursery rhymes with her daughter Amanda.
Topics: latvian, latvia, nursery rhyme, children's story, children's game
Talking about water management and geography of the Netherlands
Topics: dutch, geography
moment from the book Signs Near the Road by Ivo Andric. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1961/andric-bio.html interpretation: Serbian language all the nations who live in balkan can relate and read in original ivo andric books
Topics: freedom, expats, Balkan, ivo andric, world
moment from the book Signs Near the Road by Ivo Andric. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1961/andric-bio.html interpretation: Serbian language all the nations who live in balkan can relate and read in original ivo andric books
Topic: Serbian, Balkan, world
Description of trip to the Veneto region of Italy in May 2011. Specifically, landing in Venice, traveling to ancestral village of Falcade in the Province of Belluno, and traveling in Treviso and Bolzano. We will speak in Falcadino, the language we learned as children in San Francisco from our parents and grandparents; we learned Falcadino as our first language" along with English. Joanne will also read some proverbs in the dialect of the Veneto.
Topics: italian, falcadino speech, songs and proverbs
Aesop's fable "tortoise and the hair" spoken in Japanese.
Topics: japanese, fable, tale, jpn, native speaker, fluent speaker
A joke in Finnish, with the punchline.
Topic: finnish
My story; living in San Francisco.
Topic: swahili
My story; living in San Francisco.
Topic: swahili
Meldra sings a lullaby to her daughter.
Topics: latvian, latvia, lullaby, song
Life in Serbia vs US part 2
Topics: serbian, lifestyle
Record-a-thon participants sing Yiddish folks, with Gerry Tenney on guitar. This is part 2 of a two-part recording. Part 1 is available at http://archive.org/details/jewishdiasporarecordathon_gantse.grupe_004
Topics: yiddish, yidish, songs, music, folk songs, chorus
Part 3 of the group discussion, "Why do we still speak Yiddish?" Record-a-thon participants discuss their personal histories with the language, and how it relates to their lives now.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, language, discussion, conversation, why do we still speak yiddish
A story in Yiddish from Evie Groch about her beginnings.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, my beginnings, story, biographical, evie groch
My story; living in San Francisco.
Topic: swahili
jim telling a story in greek
Topics: greek, story, ell, fluent speaker, reading
Armand counts to twenty in the Latvian language.
Topics: latvian, latvia, numbers, numerals, counting, twenty
Taira, Anda, and Laimonis discuss Latvian theater, clothing, and the Ventspils dialect (of which Anda gives several examples). See recap, in English, at the following URL: archive.org/details/latvianrecordathon_taira_anda_laimonis_002
Topics: latvian, latvia, theater, art, performance, clothing, costume, dress, ventspils, dialects
Mara describes what she would do with five days in Latvia.
Topics: latvian, latvia, visit, vacation, activities
